A great and enduring shame of my hometown: The Tacoma Solution. Commemorated now with a beautiful traditional Chinese garden, it seemed like we were truly moving forward. It’s gutting to see it all happening again.

This song is SO good.

The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something

“There is dust on your chairs.” “Tomorrow,” said Toad. “Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.” “Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

Stoked that people are spreading my protest art around! Make your own Hex ICE stickers using the free graphic justseeds.org/graphics (Abolish ICE package 2 from @justseeds.bsky.social) or buy pre-made stickers at www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1774...

Fuck today. deadline.com/2026/01/cath...

Book mail today: sending out Ursula Le Guin, Jean Genet, and a copy of Shock Doctrine, among others. The one small thing keeping me sane

year of the fire horse risograph 🐎🔥

I was gonna hold off on releasing these shirts, BUT they are sick as hell & I wanted to show you. Imagine a world... in which Goth Girls Gardened... GASP! You're living in that world RIGHT NOW. Bring the Goth into Gardening at SquidFacts.net Designed by the amazing @seaofdoom.bsky.social

In a world where grief bleeds through the seams of our hyperconnected lives, where minds fracture under invisible weight, where democracy withers in the shadow of rising authoritarians—joy is no longer luxury. It's insurrection.

is he familiar with Jin Shengtan's "thirty three nice things" - www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

My ex’s new spouse has started to call me their ex wife in law, which I love. And they just sent me this amazing scarf they block printed. Here’s to expanding definitions of family.

Free window decor~

Heads up, Seattle: Aki Kurose Middle School in Hillman City and Cleveland STEM High School in Beacon Hill are sheltering in place after ICE activity was reported in the area.

A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the "modern" book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914

My comic for this week’s @realchangenews.org. What to do when ICE shows up.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Really enjoying the Spirealm. Very engaging blend of legitimately effective and atmospheric horror, solid intrigue, and queer longing. The running political commentary would be applicable really any time but feels especially on the nose at the moment.

It’s an excellent time to cultivate a hyperfixation on Chinese television shows

Helping promote mask wearing on public transit by bussing home during rush hour with a backpack full of smoked salmon. Public health hero

Having fancy tea and lemon squares with my 89 year old neighbor, hearing some absolutely wild fun stories. Make friends with people who aren’t your age, it makes life so much more fun.

Aquarius: It's time to put all the disappointments and misery of 2025 behind you and look forward to 2026, which will have lots of new disappointments and misery in store for you.

In general I think people should read more Galeano, especially to understand the long struggle against imperialism in the Americas. This is one of his very rare personal works. Feels relevant always & even more so today. Hard to find this but worth the search.

The year I came out to my mom she panicked and cancelled Christmas entirely. She said she was overcome by the thought that my life would be so lonely and so hard and, without a man, so difficult. It was the first Christmas I couldn’t go home for. 1/

The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home

Every once in a while I wake up with an Ominous Song in my head, by which I will know it’s going to be a bad day in my brain. Today that song is “call me maybe” and the omens have truly never been bleaker

Winter King Acrylics and Gold Leaf on Linen #wren #birdart #kleineKunstklasse #ArtAdventCalendar

Vast sin-concealing chaos

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Someone has purchased the Manhole Covers book at last. I don’t know how I feel about this moment. Did I love the Manhole Covers book after all and only, tragically, realize it too late? Have I grown accustomed to its subdued greyscale presence on my shelf? Godspeed, little book.

Early December and I am still gathering vegetables from the garden: greens, herbs, turnips. I feel overwhelmed by gratitude.

I have books I don’t know what to do with and I’m old and my mentors are long gone. I feel unprepared to be the old bookseller now. Melancholy feeling.

At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors. share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...

Shipping some danmei off to a tiny town in Texas today. I always loved mailing weird/cool/lefty/subculture books off to tiny American towns but it truly feels better than ever right now.

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🕯️ today is Trans Day of Remembrance. 🕯️ spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost. www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam

Really interesting read on creating micro forests in limited space. Offrange always has such cool agriculture and ecology reads!

I didn’t realize till today that it’s trans awareness week- so, hadïh!! I’m a tmasc genderfluid Wet’suwet’en artist who makes formline art <3 check out my stuff if you want!! I got cool stuff!! #transawarenessweek #indigenousart #transart

a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE). My heart is not a mirror To reflect what others will My heart is not a stone It cannot be rolled My heart is not a mat It cannot be folded away 我心匪鑑 不可以茹 我心匪石 不可轉也 我心匪席 不可卷也 #everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com

Our medical system is ALREADY pretty un functional and what’s about to happen is going to make it much, much worse for all of us. My nerves need a break.

I have stacks of things too beat up to list but too cool to pitch. Maybe someone is looking for a copy of this for super, super cheap? It’s hard to find. But very messed up.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Friends, if you haven’t seen Dhoom 2 you are missing out. Mamdani using “Dhoom Machale” as his walkoff music is kind of analogous to the Mission: Impossible movie theme—only waaaay sexier.

Walking outside on a clear, cool November day to harvest beans and an armload of turnips feels like a miracle

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.

Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA. Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements. The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Are you tired of greasy pots and pans? Stubborn kitchen stains? Messy sponges and sprays? Me too. I wish the sun would devour the earth.